Colymbetes Clairville 1806 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Synonym: Cymatopterus Dejean 1833

Full reference: J. P. Clairville. 1806. Helvetische Entomologie oder Verzeichniss der schweizerischen Insekten nach einer neuen Methode geordnet, zweiter Theil 1-247

Parent taxon: Colymbetini according to P. Bouchard et al. 2011

See also Carpenter 1992, Dejean 1821, LeConte 1861 and Nilsson 2001

Sister taxon: Rhantus

Subtaxa: Colymbetes aemulus Colymbetes fuscus Colymbetes miocaenicus Colymbetes paykulli Cymatopterus dolabratus Cymatopterus striatus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (4: Pennsylvania, Washington)

• Miocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 17 collections including 20 occurrences

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